2. Noun. A pattern of freckles ¹
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Definition of Freckling
1. freckle [v] - See also: freckle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freckling
Literary usage of Freckling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles and Practice of Dermatology: Designed for Students and by William Allen Pusey (1917)
"In extreme examples of freckling it is not uncommon to find faint freckles generalized
... Rare cases, of distinct unilateral freckling have been recorded; ..."
2. The Ibis by British Ornithologists' Union (1902)
"Upper surface grey with conspicuous black shaft-lines ; a faint wash of pale red
upon the scapulars and upper surface of tail ; freckling of adult faintly ..."
3. The Lancet (1898)
"The following sammer it became worse and in the following winter lamps developed
at the side of the nose. At the present time there was mach freckling with ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... or contrasted, as happens in many specie«, with a warm tawny or a sombre slaty
grey—to say nothing of the delicate freckling of black and white, ..."
5. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1898)
"Not only have we intense freckling, but dryness and hyperkeratosis, at first
diffuse, after a time taking on a warty and then a car- ..."
6. Medical Record by George Frederick Shrady, Thomas Lathrop Stedman (1889)
"Xeroderma pigmentosum (Kaposi's disease) was a noteworthy instance of this ; all
examples of unusual freckling—perhaps all freckling whatever—denoted a ..."
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